Elizabethan England and Renaissance Sites

Elizabethan England and Renaissance Sites

Prepared for Ms. Fennessy

February 4, 2014

MLA Format
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University and C.W. Post Campus' B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library. Two excellent sites to use when working on note cards, source cards and works cited page.

Databases & Reference eBook Collection

ALL Databases and eBook Collections, on the Research page, of the Media Center’s website provide information on the Elizabethan Era. MEDIA CENTER WEBSITE: RESEARCH

**REMEMBER you will need the Remote Access Codes to use the databases & the eBook Collections from HOME.

Websites

Intute

A great search engine/directory that was created by a consortium of seven United Kingdom Universities, working together with a whole host of partners. Site archived as of July 2011. http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Best of History Websites
Search the Database-This link is the result of a search for “Elizabeth”
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/early-modern-europe/reformation-discovery

History of the United Kingdom: PRIMARY Source Documents
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_the_United_Kingdom:_Primary_Documents

Primary Sources
Eyewitness Accounts of People and Events in Tudor England
http://englishhistory.net/tudor/primary.html

Renaissance: The Elizabethan World

http://www.elizabethan.org

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/home.html

Eyewitness to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mefrm.htm

Shakespeare’s Colors: Race and Culture in Elizabethan England

http://www.odu.edu/ao/instadv/quest/shakespeare.html

Modern History Sourcebook: Queen Elizabeth I

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/elizabeth1.asp

Description of Elizabethan England, 1577 from the Holished Chronicles

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison-england.html

History of Costume

http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME8_INDEX.HTML#Plate44

Shakespeare Resource Center: Elizabethan England

http://www.bardweb.net/england.html

BBC: British History : The Tudors

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml

BBC: Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036rw5q

BBC: Poverty in Elizabethan England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/poverty_01.shtml

Elizabethan Era

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/

PBS In Search of Shakespeare
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/events/list.html

The Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare’s Globe

www.bardweb.net

http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html

Shakespeare’s Life and Times http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLTnoframes/intro/introsubj.html

Folger Shakespeare Library

http://www.folger.edu
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=1583

Renaissance English Drama and Literature http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/dramasoc.htm
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/

John Lyly (1554-1606)

An Elizabethan Poet and Playwright

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/jlyly.htm

Famous Elizabethan Pirates
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/famous-elizabethan-pirates.htm

Elizabeth and the Sea Dogs
http://journeytohistory.com/history101/English%20Sea%20Dogs.html

Queen Elizabeth I

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/elizabeth_i/#item-article-06

Elizabeth I

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/elizabeth_i_01.shtml

BBC: The Sceptred Isle

Trading, Slavery and Piracy and the Spanish Armada
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/54.shtml

Elizabethan Clothing

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm

Elizabethan Costuming Page
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/

The Renaissance: History
Provides numerous links to the Renaissance
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Renaissance_Sites/History.html

VOS: Voice of the Shuttle
Renaissance and 17th Century
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749

BBC History: Kings and Queens Through Time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/kings_queens/index_embed.shtml

Royal Navy History
http://www.royal-navy.org/

The Army and Navy in Elizabeth’s Time
http://www.bartleby.com/215/1420.html

Elizabethan Exploration and Foreign Policy

http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-19.htm

Ten of the Greatest British Naval Victories
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1255826/Ten-greatest-British-naval-victories-A-look-nations-hardest-fought-battles-sea.html

Super Guns of Elizabeth I’s Navy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7899831.stm

Poverty in Elizabethan England (article by Paul Slack)

This is available in FULL TEXT through Ebscohost.
http://www.historytoday.com/paul-slack/poverty-elizabethan-england